"every woman wants a bad boy who's only good for her, and men want a good girl who's only bad for them."
2026-06-19 15:23:10
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Brian :
It sounds like everyone just wants someone who makes them feel special
2026-06-19 15:07:51
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Michaela 💞 :
Nah whatever you described isn’t an equivalent. And most women (hopefully) will reach an age and maturity where a man who ‘withholds’ kindness from everybody else but only shows it to her will realise she’s not an ‘exception’. She’s just bidding her time before he treats her like everybody else. This take wasn’t a real one
2026-06-21 13:56:20
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Nick :
This kind of falls in line with the contradiction I see with a lot of cishet women who want a man who fits a conservative idea of masculinity like being the total provider but don't want the negative parts that can come with it like misogyny
2026-06-19 07:59:43
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larb :
gay men have a version of this too, the ones who are obsessed with “converting” straight men lmao
2026-06-19 18:43:21
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Dandela :
ah so this is why the "I can fix the bad boy" trope is so popular
2026-06-19 09:59:52
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Trinity-Black 🇬🇾 :
Just described every YA novel I've ever heard a breakdown about
2026-06-19 13:32:35
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Arlo :
Oh yeah, the male lead of every romance novel
2026-06-19 04:45:04
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nandana 🧌 :
even if some women find it a turn-off when men are vulnerable, which is definitely problematic, these aren’t comparable at all lmao. women wanting a man who’s vulnerable with them is still seeing him as a human being. the madonna-whore complex is wanting a woman to be a pure saint while also wanting her to be their personal pornstar
2026-06-20 04:57:59
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Jayce :
Everyone just wants to be special and important in unrealistic and controlling ways….
2026-06-19 10:23:45
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james.mchugh124 :
Beauty and the beast
2026-06-19 12:20:59
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lily's radio :
this idea is wrong, because women are not on the extreme as men are. yes we want them to be emotional with us that they're comfortable enough to share their feelings, but we never expect them to be perfectly fine all the time and have no emotions at all. women perceive men as humans, but not the other way around
2026-06-20 14:02:16
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Joy En Joy :
As a woman I'd like to amend this actually. Because more often than not we actually sort you into two way different categories which is "is probably safe" and "will probably hurt me". The Prince charming /serial killer complex I guess you could call it
2026-06-20 14:37:23
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Advon :
There’s a good SMBC comic I would post about the Madonna-whore complex, but the search system is asssssss
2026-06-19 06:14:19
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SharkAttack Games :
There’s also a contradiction in protection (although it doesn’t stem from a taboo topic like those said in the video): women want a violent man who will take a guys head off his shoulders if he’s threatening her, but then want that same man to be kind, soft, and gentle for only her
2026-06-19 18:32:47
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MO :
kinda like beauty and the beast
2026-06-21 04:05:54
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Liana :
Women are not like this ..
2026-06-20 10:43:00
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moreorless :
I like the King Kong myth…brainless threatening monster who is utterly helpless when faced with specific femininity
2026-06-20 08:42:33
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Coyote Bebop :
Freud was a master of projection and nothing else
2026-06-19 14:27:11
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City10026 :
The difference here is the women’s version sells novels the men’s version leads to systemic abuse, labor discrimination, and public harassment of women.
2026-06-19 13:55:38
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Zuheib Musse :
both want a side that is exclusive for them.
2026-06-19 11:50:47
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Commenting for fun :
This is probably related to the born sexy yesterday” trope and the “he is only nice to me” mentality
2026-06-19 11:53:11
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melodywritessongz :
Both standards are just symptoms of patriarchy and everyone will be deprived of true love until they deconstruct.
2026-06-21 00:03:52
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antifabowser :
I think the thing that some of these comments are missing is that these ideas aren't baked into humanity or psychological phenomena, they're social constructs that reproduce through culture and are delivered subconsciously. You can't really say "these aren't real" because they're descriptions of some of the patterns we reproduce in our culture. They're more useful in media analysis, throw a dart in the smutty romance aisle and you'll hit an example.
2026-06-19 04:44:15
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jfjfjfjfhffghkl :
The whole point of the Madonna-Whore complex is that men who suffer from it consider whores to be corrupted and bad, unlike Madonnas. They want the Madonna to become a whore for them because they want whores but don't consider them worthy, but as soon as that happens, they begin to consider Madonnas corrupted
2026-06-20 09:07:10
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